Part 1 of the epic journey in building the podcast app and platform, Nexcast, begins with a trip to Silicon Valley. Brian Sanders, the CEO and host of the show, travels to San Francisco to pitch his company for the first time ever. The pressure of this challenging start is heightened by visiting the headquarters of two of the biggest tech companies in the world, Apple and Facebook, and seeing what the team is up against.

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Music credits:

Theme song: Something Elated by Broke For Free

While She Sleeps (Morning Edit) by The Lights Galaxia

Oaken by Music For Makers

Part 1 - Schooled by Silicon Valley

“So you spent the first few years trying to pitch this idea to podcast celebrities, trying to get a business model and totally get ignored. Then you bail on a startup that you’d sunk a year into and about 10 grand on. Then you magically built this team, one person off of a reddit thread, and the other by doing a bait-n-switch on a legitimate programmer who just happened to have the exact skill set you were looking for?”

That recap from Marife says it all…

Next we listen in to how we named our podcast in one of our rare team recordings. This may seem like things are going well, but you’ll soon see that everything isn’t cotton candy and smiling baby Pokemon in the near future.

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Music credits

Theme song: Something Elated by Broke For Free

Part 2 - How it Began

Startup life ain’t easy…

No more prancing Pikachu and gleeful little gumdrops in this episode. Things start to get serious when we start falling behind.

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Music credits

Theme song: Something Elated by Broke For Free

Starling by Podington Bear

Holiday (instrumental) by Antique Instrumentals

Part 3 - Keeping Afloat

Telling your own story can be hard. Making a good podcast about that story is even harder. I get some great advice from some friendly folks as I look at the tech and podcast communities and learn what makes them special.

Our podcast journey began in a Slack community called Maker Hunt where people from the http://producthunt.com community gather to chat, network, and help each other out. I talk to the creator of this cool corner of the internet Eric Willis. He tells me how he first got connected with Product Hunt and became the community manager there.

I then talk to Josh Muccio who is the host and producer of the podcast version of Shark Tank called The Pitch http://thepitch.fm
He gives me a reality check and gets me to take this whole podcasting thing a lot more seriously.

He introduces me to The Intern podcast http://theintern.fm which tells the personal tale of Allison Behringer as she begins a new tech job in New York city. Once again I get hit with the realities of telling a story in this medium.

The tech community turns out to be very unique and people are surprisingly giving of their time.

We also get an interesting email from our developer, Anthony. You’re going to want to stay tuned for what’s next…

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A very special thanks to…

Eric Willis (@erictwillis)

Josh Muccio (@joshmuccio)

Allison Behring (@albtweetin)

 

Music credits

Theme song: Something Elated by Broke For Free

Ting-Tings by Ryan Little

Cirrus by CloudBreaker

Part 4 - Community

There are no sure things when you’re bootstrapping a startup. We learn that lesson the hard way when we lose a very important member of the team.

At this point, our chances of success look pretty grim. I’m going to have to dig deep to figure out a way out of this mess. Fortunately, I get some good advice from an old friend, Ethan, who always seems to be working with awesome startups. Maybe talking to a good developer will help us find a good developer..?

At the end of the day, I have to take responsibility for our team. I learn what it means to dig deep when there doesn’t seem to be a clear answer ahead.

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MUSIC CREDITS

Theme song: Something Elated by Broke For Free

By Grace by Podington Bear

Part 5 - A Long Road Ahead

We ask a bunch of random people what they think of podcasting and get some surprising answers…

The one thing that’s clear is that podcasting can be different things to different people. And that podcasting needs all the support it can get to break out into the mainstream.

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Part 6 - What's Up With Podcasting?

We’re taking a hot second to try something new. As you may recall, Part 1 of this epic journey got started in Silicon Valley, where Brian pitched the company for the first time ever at Blab. There were both highs and lows, good points and not so good points, but we ultimately decided to highlight the rough parts of that experience to showcase the realities of pitching a startup. You know, to keep it real real.

Well in today’s episode, we explore the power of framing and interpretation as we present the same episode in a new and positive light. With a bunch of unreleased recordings from that trip, we tell the story that we originally decided not to tell. The good stuff. And with everything that we’ve endured so far, we figured some positive energy is a bit overdue.

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Intermission: How to Spin a Story

A podcast about a startup taking on Apple and creating a better podcast app.

Hear the rest of the episodes on our site, iTunes, Overcast, Downcast, Podcast Addict, and Google Play.

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